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The Crimean War : British grand strategy against Russia, 1853-56 /Andrew Lambert. Lambert, Andrew D., 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1854/1856"(42:47)

The War of 1812 : conflict for a continent /J. C. A. Stagg. "A short and easily-readable book that will explain to both Americans and Canadians why the War of 1812 mattered in the histories of their two nations. For those who seek insights into this subject during the bicentennial commemorations of the war, this book is the place to start. Its contents provide far more that merely the military history of the failed American campaigns against Canada between 1812 and 1815. Those events are set in the larger contexts of the development of the North American continent and the crisis of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. The book is short, up-to-date, and contains a useful guide to other writings about the War of 1812"-- 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1812"(42:73)

Sir Joseph Banks, Iceland and the North Atlantic 1772-1820 : journals, letters, and documents /edited and annotated with an introduction by Anna Agnarsdâottir, University of Iceland. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.22HAKLUYT

Lieut. John Irving, R.N. of H.M.S. Terror, in Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the Arctic regions : a memorial sketch with letters /Benjamin Bell. This memorial was originally published in 1881 at the request of Irving's father. Born in 1815, Irving was a lieutenant on HMS Terror during Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to find the North West passage. Found by a search party in 1878, a body was identified as Irving's by a silver medal and was returned to Edinburgh for burial. This memorial contains biographical details of Irving, his letters, details of the various search and rescue attempts, a description of his funeral and a reconstructed chronology of the Franklin expedition compiled by Clements Markham. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Migration and empire / Marjory Harper and Stephen Constantine. Harper, Marjory 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325

Ships employed in the South Seas trade, 1775-1859. A.G.E. Jones ; expanded and edited by Dale Chatwin. Jones, A. G. E., [2014]. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 387.245

Memoirs of Lady Hamilton : with illustrative anecdotes of many of her most particular friends and distinguished contemporaries 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:92Hamilton

The ship of the line / Brian Lavery. Lavery, Brian 1983-1984. • FOLIO • 9 copies available. 623.82(42)"16/18"

Shipbuilding and ships on the Thames : proceedings of the fourth symposium, held on 28 February 2009 at the Museum of London Docklands /ed. by Roger Owen. 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.12(282.242.1)

The war of 1812 and the rise of the U.S. Navy / Mark Collins Jenkins and David A. Taylor ; foreword by Douglas Brinkley. Jenkins, Mark, 2012. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 355.49"1812/1815"(42:73)

Royal naval dockyards officers : index of names /compiled by W May. May, W ca. 1960 • FOLIO • 2 copies available.

The Bard brothers : painting America under steam and sail "Before the railroad, the great transportation innovation in American life was the steamboat, first successfully developed commercially by Robert Fulton in 1807. [...] Much of what we know about how steamboats looked between 1835 and 1900 comes from the meticulously detailed paintings of John and James Bard, twin brothers who were born in New York City in 1815, coincidentally the same year that Robert Fulton died. The Bard brothers taught themselves to paint, turning out their first joint work at the age of twelve, and they became the greatest chroniclers of the steamboat era. [...] To celebrate the Bards' achievements, The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, has produced the traveling exhibition that stimulated this book. Aiding in the museum's work has been Anthony J. Peluso, Jr., without doubt the leading authority on the work of the two brothers. [...] The narrative tells the life stories of the brothers, who grew up in modest circumstances in lower Manhattan. [...] The book also offers delightful details about the steamboats themselves, their colorful and competitive owners (including Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould), and the river and harbor traffic of the Hudson River and Long Island Sound. For the Americana buff, anyone interested in United States history and technology, for the steamboat fancier and the folk art enthusiast, this volume is a must."--Provided by the publisher. 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7Bard

The impact of technological change : the early steamship in Britain /John Armstrong and David M. Williams. Armstrong, John, 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.2(42)"19"

Nelson's Navy : recruitment, promotion, discipline and death /Dr Nicholas Slope. "In this insightful work, Dr. Nicholas Slope, naval historian and archaeologist, presents a social history of the Royal Navy during the time of Vice Admiral Nelson. He analyses the muster, pay and log books of three Royal Navy Frigates, HMS Trent, Amazon and Glenmore, during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, using computer databases to explore life on board from 1793-1815. This book covers themes such as recruitment, officer development, child labour, promotion, desertion and death."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

From Ushant to Gibraltar : the Channel Fleet, 1778 -1783 /Quintin Barry. "In 1778, when the expected war finally broke with France, Lord Sandwich, the long serving First Lord of the Admiralty, had to find the resources to match the French fleet not only in the Channel but in other theaters of war such as the West Indies, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. In addition, the Royal Navy had to protect Britain's extensive maritime commerce, covering the large inbound and outbound convoys on which the country's economy depended. This book is a study of the men who led and the men who managed, both afloat and ashore, the Channel Fleet."-- 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.009

Maritime geography and statistics, or a description of the ocean and its coasts, maritime commerce, navigation. Tuckey, James Hingston. 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 5 copies available. 38(26)

War, empire and slavery, 1770-1830 / edited by Richard Bessel, Nicholas Guyatt and Jane Rendall. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.01:326(4-44)"1770/1830"

Naval chronicle : contemporary record of the Royal Navy at war /ed. by Nicholas Tracy. 1999. • BOOK • 5 copies available. 05Naval Chronicle

Rough waters : American involvement with the Mediterranean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries /edited by Silvia Marzagalli, James R. Sofka and John J. McCusker. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49:382(73:262)

War and trade in eighteenth-century Newfoundland / Olaf U. Janzen. Janzen, Olaf Uwe, 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. NN 4040

Admiralty despatches : the story of the war from the battlefront 1939-45 /G. H. Bennett. "From at least as early as the eighteenth century it became a tradition that, following operations involving the Royal Navy, the commanding admiral would report to the Admiralty in the form of an official despatch. Following the French wars of 1792-1815 the despatches were published and that set a precedent. After the Second World War the relevant despatches for 1939-45 were published (from 1947 onwards) as supplements to the London Gazette. The despatches reproduced here, introduced and annotated by Professor Bennett, cover events with a huge bearing on the outcome of the war, such as the convoys in the Mediterranean and to Russia, major amphibious operations and raids such as Dieppe, alongside some of the minor operations involving the Royal Navy and, of course, D-Day. These important documents are published here in an accessible form. We are fortunate that they were written in a way designed to be understood by the public at the time. What they reveal, not only about naval operations but about their authors, is fascinating.--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 354.71

Jack Tar in history : essays in the history of maritime life and labour /edited by Colin Howell and Richard J. Twomey. 1991. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 387.5/09

War, empire and slavery, 1770-1830 / edited by Richard Bessel, Nicholas Guyatt and Jane Rendall. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.01:326(4-44)"1770/1830"

Hornblower's historical shipmates : the young gentlemen of Pellew's Indefatigable /Heather Noel-Smith. "This book sets out the lives of seventeen 'young gentlemen' who were midshipmen under the famous Captain Sir Edward Pellew. Together, aboard the frigate HMS Indefatigable, they fought a celebrated action in 1797 against the French ship of the line Les Droits de l'Homme. C. S. Forester, the historical novelist, placed his famous hero, Horatio Hornblower, aboard Pellew's ship as a midshipman, so this book tells, as it were, the actual stories of Hornblower's real-life shipmates. And what stories they were! From diverse backgrounds, aristocratic and humble, they bonded closely with Pellew, learned their naval leadership skills from him, and benefited from his patronage and his friendship in their subsequent, very varied careers. The group provides a fascinating snapshot of the later eighteenth-century sailing navy in microcosm. Besides tracing the men's naval lives, the book shows how they adapted to peace after 1815, presenting details of their civilian careers. The colourful lives recounted include those of the Honourable George Cadogan, son of an earl, who survived three courts martial and a duel to retire with honour as an admiral in 1813; Thomas Groube, of a Falmouth merchant family, who commanded a fleet of boats which destroyed the Dutch shipping at Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, in 1806; and James Bray, of Irish Catholic descent, who was killed commanding a sloop during the American war of 1812."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.335.34

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